Hello!
We only had two baptisms last week instead of three because a birth certificate could not be found for the eleven year old daughter. That would be Guat for you, everything else went better than planned. Around 30 people showed up for the baptism which is more then usual here. Lazero, the dad, baptized his two children. It was really special to see him use the Priesthood to baptize is own children. Elder and Sister McBride came to the baptism too. They are the couple missionary's here in Sayaxche, they are super sweet. Both of them gave talks and also our branch President. Afterwards we had sandwiches and soda and a bunch of fun:)
We finally got microwaves for the house! I am so excited to use them… we just have to find a converter because they are 3 pronged.
The perfect P-day started by going over to the zl´s house at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. The next morning we wake up at 5:00 and leave to go do the activity. Yes, that’s right, we went to TIKAL one of the most famous ruins in the whole world! it was seriously the coolest experience of my life. The temples are huge and they are everywhere! The weather was perfect, cloudy and sometimes rainy all day. We saw around 20 monkeys climbing in the trees. I even saw a toucan! Elder Smith and I were walking around we saw some animal that looked kind of like a ant eater and racoon mixed. It is called a white nose coati. It just ran up to us looking for food, so we pull out some cookies and it would run up eat them out of our hands! Elder Drach came and he put the cookie in his mouth and the thing came up and took it!! Then Elder Pierce came and put a cookie on his back and made it climb up him to get, haha it was seriously so funny because it was wild but so tame. We climbed some temples that are like 150 ft high and as we were up there you would see other temples just poking out of the jungle, coolest thing I’ve ever seen! There are l12 temples that are huge, then a lot of little house ones and sacrifice ones. it took about three and a half hours to look at everything. We een saw some other gringos there who were cool to talk to. Most of the tourists are from Europe.
It’s good to hear that every one is doing so well. I love and miss you guys so much!
This church is so true and my mission has genuinely changed who I am for the better. I am having the best time of my life here.
Love, Elder Toolson
ps. holy cow I cant believe Jess and Colbi are pregnant! It’s so crazy to think tthat there are gonna be a bunch of new little Toolson’s running around when I get home!
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